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Thread #141147   Message #3255060
Posted By: The Sandman
11-Nov-11 - 12:44 PM
Thread Name: 'Occupy English Folk Music!'
Subject: RE: 'Occupy English Folk Music!'
bonny george campbell is a song i used to sing , i stopped singing it to me it is a fragment, a pleasant tune, but storywise not in the same league as tam linn or willy of the winesbury or matty groves or reynard the fox.
I put in the same trash bin as lord randall, although it does have a better tune. john charles singing is pleasant enough, but to me the whole point of ballads is the story, when you have f### all story as in george campbell, its pretty difficult to interpret.